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Re: France wants a new keyboard

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On 23/01/2016 8:25 PM, Huge wrote:
> On 2016-01-23, Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> wrote:
>> On 23/01/2016 7:05 AM, mausg@mail.com wrote:
>>> On 2016-01-22, Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:
>>>> On 2016-01-22, RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> To many monolingual people - especially those in English-speaking
>>>>> countries - the idea of a keyboard layout influencing a language as a whole
>>>>> often seems insane.
>>>>
>>>> Q. What do you call someone who speaks 3 languages?
>>>> A. Trilingual.
>>>>
>>>> Q. What do you call someone who speaks 2 languages?
>>>> A. Bilingual.
>>>>
>>>> Q. What do you call someone who speaks 1 language?
>>>> A. American.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> (Sufficiently old as to no longer be strictly true, given the inroads
>>>> the Hispanic population is making.)
>>>>
>>>
>>> Q. What do you call someone who understands several languages, but will
>>> only converse in one:
>>>
>>> A. French.
>
> True. Although most of them will switch into English once you've had a decent
> go at French.
>
>> That's only half true. The other kind if French person is the one who
>> persists in speaking to you in English even though their English is
>> worse than your French.
>
> I suppose they're allowed to practise, too!
>
>

Perhaps, but there's a time and a place, and if the task at hand is 
communication, not education, it's best to use whichever language meets 
that purpose.

Sylvia.

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France wants a new keyboard RS Wood  <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2016-01-22 17:10 +0000
  Re: France wants a new keyboard Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2016-01-22 17:21 +0000
    Re: France wants a new keyboard RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2016-01-22 17:32 +0000
      Re: France wants a new keyboard Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2016-01-22 22:28 +0200
        Re: France wants a new keyboard Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2016-01-22 19:40 -0500
          Re: France wants a new keyboard Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2016-01-23 10:43 +0200
            Re: France wants a new keyboard Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2016-01-23 09:25 +0000
              Re: France wants a new keyboard scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2016-01-25 17:36 +0000
            Re: France wants a new keyboard Andy Burns <usenet.jan2016@adslpipe.co.uk> - 2016-01-23 13:28 +0000
              Re: France wants a new keyboard RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2016-01-23 16:58 +0000
      Re: France wants a new keyboard Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2016-01-24 12:42 +0100
        Re: France wants a new keyboard Yeechang Lee <ylee@columbia.edu> - 2016-01-27 22:35 -0800
          Re: France wants a new keyboard Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2016-01-28 20:48 +0100
            Re: France wants a new keyboard Yeechang Lee <ylee@columbia.edu> - 2016-01-29 22:42 -0800
    Re: France wants a new keyboard mausg@mail.com - 2016-01-22 20:05 +0000
      Re: France wants a new keyboard Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2016-01-23 11:11 +1100
        Re: France wants a new keyboard Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2016-01-23 09:25 +0000
          Re: France wants a new keyboard Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2016-01-23 23:23 +1100
  Re: France wants a new keyboard Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2016-01-27 15:12 +0200
    Re: France wants a new keyboard Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2016-01-27 17:03 +0200
      Re: France wants a new keyboard Kara M'bola <maxupixu@in.val.it> - 2016-01-27 18:23 +0000
        Re: France wants a new keyboard RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2016-01-28 10:35 +0000
          Re: France wants a new keyboard Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2016-01-28 10:46 +0000
            Re: France wants a new keyboard Kara M'bola <maxupixu@in.val.it> - 2016-01-28 11:18 +0000
      Re: France wants a new keyboard Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2016-01-27 21:26 +0000
      Re: France wants a new keyboard Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2016-01-28 10:02 +0200

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